This is an analysis of the poem We Must Not Fail that begins with:
We must not fail, we must not fail,
However fraud or force assail; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb ccaa ddee ffgg ddhh bXii jjXh Xffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11011101 11011100 110011101 11010111 11111101 11011101 11111101 11011101 11010001 01010100 11110001 11010101 01011101 11111111 11111101 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010111 11011101 111101111 11111101 00010101 10110101 01011101 10110101 01011101 11111101 01011111 11010001 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, must, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, time are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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